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Garage is an open source S3-compatible object storage cluster designed for self hosting (garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Note: I am not affiliated with this project in any way. I think it’s a very promising alternative to things like MinIO and deserves more attention.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thoughts on this vs postgres blob storage? I know they aren't the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Buckets have a lot of features that postgres don't. Like mounting via FUSE. And Garage in particular offers some integrations to apps, websited, and so on. I would go with this instead of having a column of byte data in a DB table. The pgsql solution might work in small and simple cases (e.g. storing the user's avatar in a forum) but even so, if I could or had to choose, I wouldn't do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Great points.

For isolated projects in the past I've had great success storing things in postgres,. (generally large documents that are relationally tied to other more traditional PG data, in a db driven project) Just saying size and recall have been pretty happy.

As you say the other features are distinguishing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm always personally wary of storing blobs in a database if for no other reason it's going to totally be more expensive to store on a server rather than in some sort of blob storage.